Multicopy plasmid with a structure related to the polyoma virus genome.

abstract：:Evidence suggests that cholinergic input to the hippocampus plays an important role in learning and memory and that degeneration of cholinergic terminals in the hippocampus may contribute to the memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease. One of the more prominent effects of cholinergic agonists on hippocampal ph...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Marino MJ,Rouse ST,Levey AI,Potter LT,Conn PJ

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most studies on the ability of insect populations to transmit pathogens consider only constant temperatures and do not account for realistic daily temperature fluctuations that can impact vector-pathogen interactions. Here, we show that diurnal temperature range (DTR) affects two important parameters underlying dengue...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lambrechts L,Paaijmans KP,Fansiri T,Carrington LB,Kramer LD,Thomas MB,Scott TW

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Three components of differentiated muscle membrane, the acetylcholine receptor, acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7; acetylcholine hydrolase), and adenylate cyclase [EC 4.6.1.1; ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing)], appear simultaneously during myogenesis in cultures of embryonic chick muscle, after the main period of ra...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Prives JM,Paterson BM

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation of the human major histocompatibility complex class II genes requires at least two upstream elements, the X and Y boxes, located in the -50- to -150-base-pair region of all class II promoters. The DRA and DPB promoters contain phorbol ester-responsive elements overlapping the 3' side of thei...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ono SJ,Bazil V,Levi BZ,Ozato K,Strominger JL

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of hepatic uptake and degradation of sphingomyelin/cholesterol (2:1, M/M) small unilamellar liposomes were investigated in a BALB/c mouse. The tissue distribution of liposomes was determined by scintillation spectrometry. The percentage of intact liposomes in tissues was estimated by the technique of gamm...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Hwang KJ,Luk KF,Beaumier PL

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the synthesis of a probe that permits the visualization by electron microscopy of acidic organelles in intact cells. This probe, 3-(2,4-dinitroanilino)-3'-amino-N-methyldipropylamine (DAMP), is a basic congener of dinitrophenol that readily diffuses into intact cells. Its primary and tertiary amino groups (a...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Anderson RG,Falck JR,Goldstein JL,Brown MS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) greatly influence mature macrophage function in vitro: macrophage (M)-CSF induces maturation of monocytes and enhances differentiated cell function; granulocyte-macrophage (GM)-CSF stimulates a variety of antimicrobial functions. In vivo M-CSF is thought to promote differentiation...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： De Nichilo MO,Burns GF

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced transductional recombination between specialized transducing phage lambda plac5 and plasmid F42lac depends on cis- and trans-acting factors. By constructing a series of recombinant molecules, the cis-acting site required for enhanced recombination has been identified as oriT, the origin of conjugational trans...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Seifert HS,Porter RD

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloned DNA probes containing genes coding for the large subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (rbcA) of corn and of Chlamydomonas were used to identify, by heterologous hybridization, DNA fragments from Anabaena 7120 carrying the corresponding gene sequence. The same probes were used to isolate, from a reco...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Curtis SE,Haselkorn R

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although pain is a prevalent nonmotor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD), it is undertreated, in part because of our limited understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Considering that the basal ganglia are implicated in pain sensation, and that their synaptic outputs are controlled by the subthalamic nucleus (STN),...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Luan Y,Tang D,Wu H,Gu W,Wu Y,Cao JL,Xiao C,Zhou C

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of spontaneous mutation to 6-thioguanine resistance were determined in fibroblasts derived from normal and two Bloom syndrome individuals (GM 2548 and GM 1492). Two methods were utilized to determine the rates. Method I obtained the spontaneous mutation rate from the increase in the mutation frequency of a c...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Warren ST,Schultz RA,Chang CC,Wade MH,Trosko JE

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is a ubiquitous threat to all aerobic organisms and has been implicated in numerous pathological conditions such as cancer. Here we demonstrate a pivotal role for E2F1, a cell cycle regulatory transcription factor, in cell tolerance of oxidative stress. Cells lacking E2F1 are hypersensitive to oxidati...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Graves JD,Lee YJ,Liu K,Li G,Lin FT,Lin WC

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We and others have reported that the vast majority of virus-producing CD4(+) T cells during the acute infection of rhesus macaques with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) or CXCR4 (X4)-using simian/human immunodeficiency viruses (SHIVs) exhibited a nonactivated phenotype. These findings have been extended to show tha...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Nishimura Y,Sadjadpour R,Mattapallil JJ,Igarashi T,Lee W,Buckler-White A,Roederer M,Chun TW,Martin MA

更新日期：2009-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a gap between how many scientists communicate and how most people understand and interpret messages. This article argues that the extensive science communications literature needs to be joined by the health literacy literature and anthropological work on cultural variations in hearing and understanding messag...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Scrimshaw SC

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthrax lethal toxin can be engineered to deliver foreign proteins to the cytosol for antigen presentation to CD8 T cells. Vaccination with modified toxins carrying 8-9 amino acid peptide epitopes induces protective immunity in mice. To evaluate whether large protein antigens can be used with this system, rec...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lu Y,Friedman R,Kushner N,Doling A,Thomas L,Touzjian N,Starnbach M,Lieberman J

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acid type A (GABA-A) receptors are a major mediator of inhibitory neurotransmission in the mammalian central nervous system, and the site of action of a number of clinically important drugs. These receptors exist as a family of subtypes with distinct temporal and spatial patterns of expression and d...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bonnert TP,McKernan RM,Farrar S,le Bourdellès B,Heavens RP,Smith DW,Hewson L,Rigby MR,Sirinathsinghji DJ,Brown N,Wafford KA,Whiting PJ

更新日期：1999-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Netrin-1 is critical for axonal pathfinding which shares similarities with formation of vascular network. Here we report that netrin-1 induction of angiogenesis is mediated by an increase in endothelial nitric oxide (NO*) production, which occurs via a DCC-dependent, ERK1/2-eNOS feed-forward mechanism. Exposure of mat...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Nguyen A,Cai H

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:ALOX15 (12/15-lipoxygenase) orthologs have been implicated in maturational degradation of intracellular organelles and in the biosynthesis of antiinflammatory and proresolving eicosanoids. Here we hypothesized that lower mammals (mice, rats, pigs) express 12-lipoxygenating ALOX15 orthologs. In contrast, 15-lipoxygenat...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Adel S,Karst F,González-Lafont À,Pekárová M,Saura P,Masgrau L,Lluch JM,Stehling S,Horn T,Kuhn H,Heydeck D

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has been known for decades that the tight junctions of fluid-transporting epithelia are leaky to ions, it has not been possible to determine directly whether significant transjunctional water movement also occurs. An optical microscopic technique was developed for the direct visualization of the flow veloc...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kovbasnjuk O,Leader JP,Weinstein AM,Spring KR

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Explanation of a process of development must ultimately be couched in the terms of the genomic regulatory code. Specification of an embryonic cell lineage is driven by a network of interactions among genes encoding transcription factors. Here, we present the gene regulatory network (GRN) that directs the specification...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Oliveri P,Tu Q,Davidson EH

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:If they are able to spread in wild populations, CRISPR-based gene-drive elements would provide new ways to address ecological problems by altering the traits of wild organisms, but the potential for uncontrolled spread tremendously complicates ethical development and use. Here, we detail a self-exhausting form of CRIS...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Noble C,Min J,Olejarz J,Buchthal J,Chavez A,Smidler AL,DeBenedictis EA,Church GM,Nowak MA,Esvelt KM

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature lability of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP; glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase; ADP: alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.27), a key starch biosynthetic enzyme, may play a significant role in the heat-induced loss in maize seed weight and yield. Here we report the isolation an...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Greene TW,Hannah LC

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Rational engineering methods can be applied with reasonable success to optimize physicochemical characteristics of proteins, in particular, antibodies. Here, we describe a combined CDR3 walking randomization and rational design-based approach to enhance the affinity of the human anti-gastrin TA4 scFv. The application ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Barderas R,Desmet J,Timmerman P,Meloen R,Casal JI

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection is usually considered to be the dominant force controlling viral variation; the large population sizes suggest that deterministic population genetic models are appropriate. To investigate their validity for HIV, samples of env gene sequences were tested for departure from neutrality because of mutation-selec...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Brown AJ

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:By using an indirect immunofluorescence technique, the distribution of poly(ADP-ribose) synthesis in human blood cells was investigated. The antibody used was reactive with poly(ADP-ribose) larger than trimers. The specific immunofluorescence of poly(ADP-ribose) synthesized in situ from NAD+ was observed in nuclei of ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ikai K,Ueda K,Fukushima M,Nakamura T,Hayaishi O

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed three computer programs for comparisons of protein and DNA sequences. They can be used to search sequence data bases, evaluate similarity scores, and identify periodic structures based on local sequence similarity. The FASTA program is a more sensitive derivative of the FASTP program, which can be us...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Pearson WR,Lipman DJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aryloxyphenoxypropionates, inhibitors of the plastid acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) of grasses, also inhibit Toxoplasma gondii ACC. Clodinafop, the most effective of the herbicides tested, inhibits growth of T. gondii in human fibroblasts by 70% at 10 microM in 2 days and effectively eliminates the parasite in 2-4 days ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Zuther E,Johnson JJ,Haselkorn R,McLeod R,Gornicki P

更新日期：1999-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We show in climate model experiments that large-scale afforestation in northern mid-latitudes warms the Northern Hemisphere and alters global circulation patterns. An expansion of dark forests increases the absorption of solar energy and increases surface temperature, particularly in regions where the land surface is ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Swann AL,Fung IY,Chiang JC

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular targeting of the two receptor interaction domains of the epigenetic repressor silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors (SMRT(mRID)) produced a transplantable skeletal syndrome that reduced radial bone growth, increased numbers of bone-resorbing periosteal osteoclasts, and increased bone f...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Hong SH,Dvorak-Ewell M,Stevens HY,Barish GD,Castro GL,Nofsinger R,Frangos JA,Shoback D,Evans RM

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A close study of the metabolic regulation of hexose transport in a hamster fibroblast mutant, highly defective in the enzyme phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI mutant), reveals the requirement for at least three vectors for transport regulation. The downward regulation of the hexose transport system, called the "transport ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kalckar HM,Ullrey DB

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00